Chance Me Please for Yale SCEA, Harvard, WUSTL, etc.

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

<p>School Type: Public in Tennessee
Race/Gender: Asian male
Prospective Major: Biology Pre-med
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Class rank: 1 out of 400ish (only valedictorian)
SAT I: CR 740, M 800, W 800 (one sitting)
SAT II: MathII 800, Chemistry 800
ACT: (English, Math, Reading, Science, Writing) 35, 36, 34, 33, 10 essay
or 36, 36, 34, 35 no writing
APs: World History (5) Statistics (5) Chemistry (5), US Government (5)</p>

<p>Senior Year Coarseload: AP Literature, AP Physics B, AP Calc BC, AP Comp Sci, Honors Senior Spanish (highest offered), AP Psychology</p>

<p>Awards: none really, NM Finalist probably, AP Scholar with Honors, placed top 100 at NFL National debate tournament, 3rd place at state debate</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: Debate (President 12, state and national qualifier, bunch of awards), piano (multiple top state finishes, few scholarship awards), NHS, Beta Chi Pi, Mu Alpha Theta (publicity 10, president 11 and 12), Culture club (co-founder, co-president 11and 12)
Job/Work: none
Volunteer: Hospital volunteer, church, school not many hours ~75 hours
Summer Activites:
before 9th grade: Summer school and academic talent search (UNR 6 college credits)
before 10th grade: travel
before 11th grade: biochemistry research ~500 hours
before 12th grade: hospital volunteer, same biochem research internship ~200 hours</p>

<p>Could somebody please give me their opinion on my chances plus any personal recommendations for: Yale SCEA, Harvard, WUSTL, Brown PLME, Northwestern HPME, Case Western PPSP, Duke, Emory, Vanderbilt. I will chance back! Thanks!</p>

2

<p>If you get some stellar award or scholarship, your chances will be much improved; nevertheless, you look very good. For HYP, many of their applicants look like this, but what makes them accepted is their unique and great awards or ECs. You look very capable of achieving something big too. As for right now, if I were you, I would keep getting straight A’s but at the same time look for an opportunity that will make you stand out.</p>

3

<p>I’m in the same position as you, perfect GPA, ~35 ACT, but not so hot awards/e.c. And frankly I don’t think I have a chance at Ivy Leagues etc. Aim for a good essay and recs I guess and hope for the best!</p>

<p>Edit: HPME is extremely difficult to get into, harder than HYPSM alone. You need a strong background in medical-related activities if you really want a shot, and I don’t see that passion?</p>

4

<p>To maximize your chances at WUSTL, show interest in the school by either visiting the campus or an information session. Your stats and EC look pretty great. Unless WUSTL has gone to a supplementary essay for 2014, you can try to tailor your essay on the common app (at least make a separate version) to send to WUSTL alone- Vanderbilt also has not required a supplemental essay either.</p>

5

<p>Thank you for the chances, everybody! I’ll definitely try to visit WUSTL, psychodad.
I completely understand what smarty99 is getting at with the medical related activities. I know these BSMD programs are looking for demonstrated passion, but does anybody have any general ideas on this? I know there’s hospital volunteering, research, and shadowing, but would anybody have any unique ideas?? Thanks!</p>

6

<p>WUSTL has a med scholars program (University Scholars program) that can get you into their med school, but it is a highly competitive program to get into, and I believe you need to have a 3.8 GPA and 36 MCAT to get into the medical school, 2 very difficult tasks to achieve. Most BS/MD programs are going to be tougher to get into than the most competitive colleges. And as a physician, I think that with no demonstrated passion for medicine, it would be even tougher to get accepted, especially when the applicant pool is highly competitive.</p>

7

<p>bump could somebody give me a better idea with the non BSMD programs please?</p>